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Jan 23, 2013
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if the government's going to give me no assistance, then i likely wouldn't. because adding more debt, even in terms of long-term low-interest loans is still de debt, and i took out that to start this business or i took out debt to be able to get through the great recession, but i don't really have the option to take out more debt without some direct assistance like a grant that can help jump start my business, get those individuals i had employed reemployed once again and create an opportunity for our community. that decision right now for those businesses, which are life-and-death decisions, are pending, hanging by the will of the senate to act. i'm also pleased that the package that the house passed recognizes what i've been saying all along, the funding that the army corps of engineers' efforts is critical to rebuilding coastal communities and particularlparticularly new jers weakened coastal defenses. we are at the lowest of our immune system as a coastal state and we already see the biting cold. it's cold throughout the capitol today. that's how cold it
if the government's going to give me no assistance, then i likely wouldn't. because adding more debt, even in terms of long-term low-interest loans is still de debt, and i took out that to start this business or i took out debt to be able to get through the great recession, but i don't really have the option to take out more debt without some direct assistance like a grant that can help jump start my business, get those individuals i had employed reemployed once again and create an opportunity...
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Jan 17, 2013
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that's what government intermediates. they decide how much money they take and how much they spend we can dispute and argue about that constantly. to leap up into the taxpayer unlimited playability for bad decisions taken in the pursuit of an income statement driven mentality seems to be unjust and un-american and that's the statement that i'm making and we propose a simple solution for the market than impose discipline. you begin to see people should dismiss this already and he saw that because some are complex organizations treated a lower multiple than those with police complex structures. the market taking care wants the rules are clearly established here but the rules are hyper complex and still enormously murky and i think it's hard to figure which end is up and i can tell you as part of the team trying to implement under the law created by people in the legislature and in her case over 300 plus different aspects of dodd-frank can only be partway through, this is a very complicated process. so ours is an effort of s
that's what government intermediates. they decide how much money they take and how much they spend we can dispute and argue about that constantly. to leap up into the taxpayer unlimited playability for bad decisions taken in the pursuit of an income statement driven mentality seems to be unjust and un-american and that's the statement that i'm making and we propose a simple solution for the market than impose discipline. you begin to see people should dismiss this already and he saw that...
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Jan 22, 2013
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we have to govern. it is time for to us pay attention to jobs and the economy, and the things that matter to american families. the things they talk about around the kitchen table. that was the message that was sent us from this election, and we will do -- we would do very well to liv to it. under the abuse of the current rules, all it takes to filibuster is one senator picking up the phone. that's it. doesn't even have to go to the floor and defend it. just a phone call by one senator. no muss, no fuss, no inconvenience, except for the american public. except for a nation that expects and needs government that works. a government that actually works together and finds common ground. maybe some of my colleagues believe that the senate is working as it should, that everything is fine. well, mr. president, we do not take that view. it isn't working and it needs change. the american people of all persuasions want a government that actually gets something done. the challenges are too great, the stakes are t
we have to govern. it is time for to us pay attention to jobs and the economy, and the things that matter to american families. the things they talk about around the kitchen table. that was the message that was sent us from this election, and we will do -- we would do very well to liv to it. under the abuse of the current rules, all it takes to filibuster is one senator picking up the phone. that's it. doesn't even have to go to the floor and defend it. just a phone call by one senator. no...
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Jan 16, 2013
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in the government itself, 75%. um, those figures compare pretty favorably to comparable polling in the united states of our confidence in our own institutions. interestingly, 79% of the people think that the government is corrupt. so it's not just that they were giving the pollsters the answers they thought the pollsters wanted. they were quite critical of the government. but they also seem to have a more balanced approach. they can cite the government as on balance better than most they've experienced in their lifetime while at the same time feeling that it's very corrupt and that something ought to be done about it. polls after the presidential election of several years ago, um, showed the same results. that is, most afghans thought karzai's presidential election had been, had been very corrupt, and most of them were very satisfied with the result. and so they could have, they could hold both concepts which our own media seems unable to do. we recently did a study which i think puts afghanistan in some perspectiv
in the government itself, 75%. um, those figures compare pretty favorably to comparable polling in the united states of our confidence in our own institutions. interestingly, 79% of the people think that the government is corrupt. so it's not just that they were giving the pollsters the answers they thought the pollsters wanted. they were quite critical of the government. but they also seem to have a more balanced approach. they can cite the government as on balance better than most they've...
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Jan 22, 2013
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they talked about the fact tha that -- that if you allowed a small minority to govern and block the governing of the majority, that that was the tyranny of the minority. and they feared that. and so i think when we consider this and we talk about the filibuster and our institution today, our united states senate, where many times the republican leader has come to the floor and said, it's going to take 60 votes. everything takes 60 votes. well, that isn't the way the founders designed it. the founders had actually very strong language for what they thought of supermajorities. everybody remembers their history. the founders came off the articles of confederation. it was a supermajority. it didn't work. it was broken. and so they only put into the constitution in five places, supermajorities. things like expelling a member and ratifying a treaty. but, otherwise, simple majorities. and now how -- how this happened? it's hard -- when the history's going to be written, it's hard to tell. but to have a leader of the senate stand up and say, "everything takes 60 votes." well, the founders never conte
they talked about the fact tha that -- that if you allowed a small minority to govern and block the governing of the majority, that that was the tyranny of the minority. and they feared that. and so i think when we consider this and we talk about the filibuster and our institution today, our united states senate, where many times the republican leader has come to the floor and said, it's going to take 60 votes. everything takes 60 votes. well, that isn't the way the founders designed it. the...